Michel GondryArticle by Jessica Goebel

Remember that story we ran a few weeks back revealing the title of director Michel Gondry’s next flick? Well, due to communication difficulties with the French filmmaker, we must now make a minor retraction.

"It's funny because I tell you the title, but then because of my accent it's all over the Net with the wrong title!" the occasionally English-challenged director laughed. "It's called 'The Return of the Ice Kids.' But if you say 'Ice Kings,' that's cool too, I guess." Read More...

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Melonie Diaz, Jack Black and Mos Def in 'Be Kind Rewind'If you thought "Be Kind, Rewind" was off-beat or eccentric, wait'll you get a load of director Michel Gondry's proposed sequel, which could be called "Rewound" if I didn't already dub it "The Weirdest Friggin Thing I Have Ever Heard of In My Life."

"The sequel would happen this way: Mia [Farrow] and Danny Glover are together, Alma [Melonie Diaz] and Mos Def are together, Jack [Black] is left alone and so he's kind of depressed," Gondry explained. "But one day he finds a little dog and gets very attached to it." Read More...

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All the great masters crib ideas from others: "Casablanca" was adapted from a failed play, "Hamlet" from a Norse work called "Ur-Hamlet" (subtle work with the title there, Shakespeare), but could Michel Gondry have stolen the idea for "Be Kind, Rewind" from…Amanda Bynes?

That's the rumor going around today after an 8-year-old clip from her eponymous Nickelodeon comedy show began circulating around the interwebs. The two-minute clip basically shows Amanda working behind a video store counter, repeatedly telling customers that their versions of rented movies (which she has sweded with her brother) are "better" than the originals. So yeah, it's got a video store, shabby looking remade movies by the staff, and some complaining customers.

Which all adds up to…nothing. Absolutely nothing. Read More...

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page.jpgI've got a fever, and the only prescription is more links of the day – back again with news on Ellen Page, "The A-Team," "The Princess and the Frog," and more.

- All hail the new roller girl! Writer lets slip that Ellen Page is set to star in roller derby coming of age story "Whip It." (Film School Rejects)

- John Singleton to love it when his plan comes together. Director hopes to cast Woody Harrelson as Murdock in "The A-Team." (Collider)

- Princess Tiana dreams of true love in this first look at Disney's traditionally animated 2009 feature "The Princess and the Frog." (Coming Soon)

- "Ghost World" screenwriter Dan Clowes to write Michel Gondry's animated movie. (/film)

- "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. (AP)

- Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Bono among celebrities wishing Bill Gates a fond farewell in this funny retirement video. (Reelz)

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Michel GondryIf any other writer/director hit you with this plotline, you might be inclined to glance around the room for his crack pipe. With Michel Gondry, however, it somehow makes sense.

"I'm writing a story about kids who invent a water that makes you hear music when you drink it," explained the director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and next month's trippy Jack Black flick "Be Kind Rewind". "It's going to be a scientific story, but completely unrealistic." Read More...

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Daniel RadcliffeSit back and enjoy a hot steaming cup of our links of the day, back again in the new year with news on Daniel Radcliffe, Frank Darabont, and possibly the greatest trailer mash-up ever.

- Daniel Radcliffe to play photo-journalist Dan Eldon in "Journey." 22-year-old photographer was stoned to death in 1993. (The Observer)

- "Back to the Future," "Dances With Wolves," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" all among flicks added to National Film Registry by Library of Congress. (Library of Congress)

- "Be Kind, Rewind" director Michel Gondry opening video store in NYC. Will give people the opportunity to create their own short films. (/film)

- Frank Darabont prepping movie about "Tokyo Rose," famed Japanese-American broadcaster convicted of treason. (Collider)

- "Why so serious?" This trailer mash-up of "The Dark Knight" and Adam West's "Batman" television series might be the funniest thing we've seen in a while. (YouTube)

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Michel GondryI'll be honest, when I think of Michel Gondry "real life" isn't the first thing that comes to mind, not with fantastical and sometimes surreal movies like "The Science of Sleep" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" to his credit. But, three years after "Dave Chappelle's Block Party," the Puckish director is returning to documentary, he revealed to MTV News.

"I'm doing [a documentary] about my Auntie who has been a school teacher for 50 years," he said of the still untitled project. "It's amazing." Read More...

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Michel GondryA visionary director with a taste for the fantastic, the look of Michel Gondry's films have always seemed to have more in common with Bugs Bunny than Steven Spielberg - where the rules of space, and gravity, and time don't apply, and dreams can be as real as the girl in the next apartment.

Imagine what he could do with some paper and a few paints.

"I am working on an animated film with my son," Gondry revealed to MTV News. "It's going to be quite amazing." Read More...

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Michel GondryHow's this for ironic? Brilliant French director Michel Gondry didn’t contribute to "Paris, je t'aime," a compendium of shorts that all centered around his native City of Lights, but after recently speaking with our very own Josh Horowitz about "Be Kind Rewind" the visionary 44-year-old said he was immediately boarding a plane to contribute to a similar film anthology on Tokyo, called, appropriately enough, "Tokyo."

"We're each doing a 30-minute segment," he said of himself and collaborators Joon-ho Bong and Leos Carax. "It's all connected with Tokyo. [My segment] is a story about a girl who tries to move into Tokyo with her boyfriend and, she can’t find an apartment or a job. She eventually turns into a chair." Read More...

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Michel GondryOne of the more interesting projects out there is a whimsical adaptation of "Ripley's Believe It or Not," the classic anthology of amazing discoveries and questionable facts. Long-attached to the film was director Tim Burton, with Jim Carrey set to play the intrepid explorer in the title role. Recently, however, Burton ditched the production, leaving its future in serious doubt.

Enter the rumor mill. According to one story sweeping the Internet, famed auteur Michel Gondry has been in talks to take over from Burton, reuniting the helmer with his "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" actor. On its face, the pairing would make sense, given the propensity for Gondry to tackle quirky films like "Ripley's." Seems like a lock, right? Well, not quite. Reached for comment, Gondry's publicist assured MTV News that the rumors are, to put it bluntly, "untrue." So is this the final word? Sadly, that'd appear to be the case.

Who would you like to see tackle "Ripley's Believe It or Not?" Chime in below!

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